Example sentences of "[pers pn] have gone wrong " in BNC.
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1 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
2 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
3 | ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't . |
4 | I do n't know where I 've gone wrong in your upbringing . |
5 | I 've gone wrong |
6 | Could you tell me where I have gone wrong and why the formula has to be written differently for different software . |
7 | He wrote : ‘ Thanks for your hospitality over the past few weeks and for helping me see where I have gone wrong . ’ |
8 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
9 | A : It 's difficult to pin down precisely where you 've gone wrong without knowing what you typed in at the command line to begin restoring . |
10 | Erm , and you know when you 've gone wrong in the clarinet . |
11 | Do you know when you 've gone wrong in the clarinet , and you know when you 've gone wrong with the till . |
12 | Do you know when you 've gone wrong in the clarinet , and you know when you 've gone wrong with the till . |
13 | So , so you know if you 've gone wrong . |
14 | That night she cried herself to sleep wondering where she had gone wrong and thinking she could not bear it if she never saw Edward again . |
15 | Somewhere along the line , Harriet felt , she had gone wrong with her daughter 's upbringing . |
16 | The reason for this advice is that , if you go wrong but the examiner can identify the stage at which you have gone wrong , he is able to give you the appropriate credit . |
17 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
18 | ‘ I think I know where we 've gone wrong . |
19 | If he 's got a job there , and he 's done it well or he 's done it badly , tell him he 's done it badly , tell them where they 've gone wrong and tell them what they should do to put it right . |
20 | A forest of hands clutching a variety of tickets waved about his head like the tentacles of a sea anemone and he began patiently to explain where they had gone wrong . |
21 | ‘ I knew they had gone wrong and shouted at them to stop , ’ said Nicholson on welcoming back his winner . |
22 | Students learn best from their own mistakes ; they should be told when and why they have gone wrong , and how their approach to a problem should be redirected . |
23 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
24 | But there are key areas where I feel they have gone wrong . |
25 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
26 | When things go wrong , the citizen wants to be told fully , honestly and , preferably , there and then why it has gone wrong . |
27 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
28 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
29 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |
30 | As soon as you had a break in your ploughing you 'd walk along the headlings to have a look at your neighbour 's work , to see where he had gone wrong , or if his ploughing was better than yours . |